Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 255
Gail Marlene Schwartz
Gail Marlene Schwartz’s work has appeared in Lilith Magazine, The New Quarterly, and Room Magazine, and anthologies Swelling with Pride (Caitlyn Press), Nature’s Healing Spirit (Sowing Creek Press), and How To Expect What You’re Not Expecting (TouchWood Editions). Gail lives in southern Quebec with her family.
Steven Genise
Steven Genise is a writer based in Seattle. His work has appeared in After the Pause, Natural Bridge, and was shortlisted for Epiphany‘s Best Under 30 Award. He is the fiction editor for Cascadia Magazine.
Tessa Smith McGovern
Tessa Smith McGovern’s fiction has appeared in numerous places including Verdad Magazine, Studio One, Equinox (UK), and the Connecticut Review. McGovern is a British writer living in the US and currently pursuing her MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Minyoung Lee
Minyoung Lee lives in San Francisco, CA with her well-traveled calico cat, Matisse. She will be joining the 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop and the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference on the Heather Ludwick First Taste Scholarship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Vestal Review, MoonPark Review, JMWW, Mythic Picnic, and Brilliant Flash Fiction.
Alison Theresa Gibson
Alison Theresa Gibson grew up in Canberra, the illusive capital of Australia, and now lives in Birmingham, UK. In 2018, she placed second in the Winchester Writer’s Festival short story competition. She has been published in Meanjin, Mechanics’ Institute Review, the Nottingham Review, and others. She is writing her fourth-time-lucky novel while working at University College London. Find her on twitter @AlisonTheresa87
Alita Pirkopf
After receiving a master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Denver, Alita Pirkopf became increasingly interested in feminist interpretations of literature. Eventually, she enrolled in a poetry class at the University of Denver taught by Bin Ramke. Poetry became a long-term focus and obsession. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Alembic, Artifact Nouveau, Burningword Literary Journal, Caduceus, The Cape Rock, The Chaffin Journal, The Distillery, Euphony Journal, Evening Street Review, Existere, Good Works Review, The Griffin, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Harpur Palate, Illya’s Honey, Ink Pantry, Lullwater Review, Moon City Review, The Paragon Journal, The Penmen Review, Quiddity, riverSedge, Rubbertop Review, Ship of Fools, Stonecoast Review, Temenos Journal, Vending Machine Press, Vox Poetica, Westview, and Willow Springs Review.
Josef Krebs
Josef Krebs has a chapbook published by Etched Press and his poetry also appears in the Bicycle Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Calliope, The Cape Rock, The Chaffey Review, Inscape, Mouse Tales Press, Organs of Vision and Speech, Tacenda, The Bohemian, Agenda, The Corner Club Press, Crack the Spine, The FictionWeek Literary Review, the Aurorean, Carcinogenic Poetry, The Bangalore Review, 521magazine, Former People, Grey Sparrow Journal, IthacaLit, New Plains Review, Inwood Indiana Press, Free State Review, and The Cats Meow. A short story has been published in blazeVOX. He’s written three novels and five screenplays. His film was successfully screened at Santa Cruz and Short Film Corner of Cannes film festivals.
Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Chappell Hill, Texas. His published works include a novel, THE DREAM PATCH, a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK. HIs short fiction has appeared in many journals including The Southern Review, New Orleans Review, and Glimmer Train. He conducts private creative writing workshops in Houston.
Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri
Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri is a Norwegian-Canadian translator and writer based in Toronto. She returned to writing in 2011, after a very, very long break. Her writing has since been longlisted for Prism International nonfiction prize and the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, Shortlisted for Briarpatch‘s ‘Writing in the Margins’ contest, and published (or forthcoming) in J Journal, Saint Katherine Review, Monarch Review, Citron Review, Sycamore Review, subTerrain Magazine, Broken Pencil, Agnes and True, Forge Literary Magazine, Fjords Review, Grain Magazine, Typehouse Literary Review, The Nasiona, WOW! -Women on writing, Burning House Press, The New Quarterly and elsewhere.